Chad’s presidential elections on 6 May will officially mark the end of the transitional government but will not mean a break with authoritarian rule.
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Kenya’s deployment to Haiti would contribute towards the country’s role in enhancing global peace and security.
The SADC mission shows how difficult it is to run a large-scale military intervention, especially if the host government is not taking full ownership and supporting the operation.
Chipo’s story gives the perspective of a parent forced to leave a young child behind to provide for him.
Governance failure and location of schools around large expanses of unprotected forest zones make school children easy targets for bandits in Nigeria’s north-west.
With the conduct of the 24 March elections, Senegal’s President Macky Sall appears to have saved his legacy.
South Africa is among a few countries that completely prohibit the involvement of citizens in foreign armed conflict.
Nigeria’s school abductions are a sign of neglect of territorial and human security in the country.
Niger is cutting military ties with the US. This has implications for security in the Sahel region.
The Independent Electoral Commission cannot afford to put a foot wrong in the country’s most important election since democracy in 1994, on 29 May.
It is feared that the current violence against political opposition in Chad could signal the beginning of another long term dictatorship.
Attempts to postpone Senegal’s election indefinitely reflect deeper governance problems within Macky Sall’s administration, and the shortcomings of his chosen heir, Amadou Ba.
Negative perceptions of police professionalism and corruption go hand in hand with low public trust in the police, poor marks on government performance, and citizens’ sense of insecurity.
Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
Uganda, as the concerned state party, is expected to go out and find Dominic Ongwen’s victims.